Cloning of genes determining the production of mannose-resistant fimbriae in a uropathogenic strain of Escherichia coli belonging to serogroup O6.

abstract：:The effect of a standard regimen of cimetidine on the gastric flora of 20 male volunteers was studied in a double-blind manner and compared with the effects of a standard antacid regimen. Postprandial microbial titers in gastric aspirates were significantly higher at 4, 8, and 16 weeks of therapy in subjects taking an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Snepar R,Poporad GA,Romano JM,Kobasa WD,Kaye D

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept that relates low virulence of certain alphaviruses to low viremia and efficient vascular clearance of virus was tested in guinea pigs. Previously published studies with hamsters suggested that virulent strains maintain high viremias primarily because they are cleared inefficiently from the blood. In the pr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jahrling PB,Heisey GB,Hesse RA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of our group reported recently that neisseria infection of human epithelial cells results in accelerated degradation of the major lysosomal integral membrane protein LAMP1 and that this is due to hydrolysis of this glycoprotein at its immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1)-like hinge by the neisseria type 2 IgA1 protease (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ayala P,Lin L,Hopper S,Fukuda M,So M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified and concentrated Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus derived from tissue cultures, rendered noninfectious by ionizing radiation with retention of in vitro serological activity, also retained a high level of immunogenicity. In mice, fluid vaccines afforded excellent protection against lethal challenge w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gruber J

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficient (SCID)-beige mice inoculated with the intracellular parasite Eimeria papillata produced significantly more oocysts during primary infections than inoculated immunodeficient SCID mice. Therefore, the addition of the beige mutation, which detrimentally affects neutrophil and natural kille...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schito ML,Barta JR

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-phase variants and small colony (G-phase) variants derived from penicillinase-producing Staphylococcus aureus strains were tested for penicillinase (beta lactamase) production. A refined variation of the modified Gots test for penicillinase was used to demonstrate penicillinase synthesis. Penicillinase synthesis was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simon HJ,Yin EJ

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an emerging cause of diarrheal illness. Clinical data suggest that diarrhea caused by EAEC is predominantly secretory in nature, but the responsible enterotoxin has not been described. Work from our laboratories has implicated a ca. 108-kDa protein as a heat-labile enteroto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eslava C,Navarro-García F,Czeczulin JR,Henderson IR,Cravioto A,Nataro JP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemotactic behavior of Campylobacter jejuni was determined in the presence of different amino acids, carbohydrates, organic acids, and preparations and constituents of mucin and bile. L-Fucose was the only carbohydrate and L-aspartate, L-cysteine, L-glutamate, and L-serine were the only amino acids producing a ch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hugdahl MB,Beery JT,Doyle MP

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus ducreyi, the causative agent of chancroid, produces a lipooligosaccharide (LOS) which terminates in N-acetyllactosamine. This glycoform can be further extended by the addition of a single sialic acid residue to the terminal galactose moiety. H. ducreyi does not synthesize sialic acid, which must be acquire...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Post DM,Mungur R,Gibson BW,Munson RS Jr

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Escherichia coli oligonucleotide microarray based on three sequenced genomes was validated for comparative genomic microarray hybridization and used to study the diversity of E. coli O157 isolates from human infections and food and animal sources. Among 26 test strains, 24 (including both Shiga toxin [Stx]-positive...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wu G,Carter B,Mafura M,Liebana E,Woodward MJ,Anjum MF

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal sodC encodes periplasmic copper- and zinc-cofactored superoxide dismutase (Cu,Zn SOD) which catalyzes the conversion of the superoxide radical anion to hydrogen peroxide, preventing a sequence of reactions leading to production of toxic hydroxyl free radicals. From its periplasmic location, Cu,Zn SOD was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilks KE,Dunn KL,Farrant JL,Reddin KM,Gorringe AR,Langford PR,Kroll JS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomyces viscosus ATCC 15987 was examined for the presence of cell-associated levan by absorption of myeloma proteins with antilevan activity and direct immunofluorescence. Levan was not detectable on the surface of glucose-grown A. viscosus, but after a brief incubation of these cells with 5% sucrose, they were en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Warner TN,Miller CH

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous virus production is a characteristic of chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) infected and transformed by a nondefective Schmidt-Ruppin subgroup A Rous sarcoma virus. This virus production has been examined with particular attention to the amount of newly budded virus which remained cell-associated, and to the a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Volkmann KR,Morgan HR

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the identification of a surface-exposed, highly conserved, immunogenic nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) protein, which elicits cross-reactive bactericidal antibodies against NTHi. The protein was extracted from NTHi strain P860295 with KSCN and purified; it migrated as a single band on a sodium d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zagursky RJ,Ooi P,Jones KF,Fiske MJ,Smith RP,Green BA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fibronectin (Fn)-binding adhesin of Staphylococcus aureus contains three tandem 37- or 38-amino-acid motifs (D1, D2, and D3), which function to bind Fn. Plasma from patients with S. aureus infections contain antibodies that preferentially recognize ligand induced binding sites in the D motifs and do not inhibit Fn b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huesca M,Sun Q,Peralta R,Shivji GM,Sauder DN,McGavin MJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infection of beige (bg/bg) mice induced levels of natural killer cytolytic activity comparable to that of uninfected normal bg/+ controls, but considerably less than natural killer activity in VSV-infected bg/+ mice. In contrast, VSV-infected bg/bg and bg/+ mice had essentially equival...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McKinnon KP,Hale AH,Ruebush MJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of chronic pathology in mice at 2 to 10 months after inoculation of 10(2) T. cruzi trypomastigotes can be prevented by preimmunization with live, attenuated culture parasites (strain TCC). Swiss mice received one or three immunizing inoculations of 10(6) TCC organisms and were challenged with 10(2) Tul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Basombrío MA,Besuschio S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a gram-negative marine bacterium, is an important pathogen causing food-borne gastroenteritis or septicemia. Recent genome sequencing of the RIMD2210633 strain (a Kanagawa phenomenon-positive clinical isolate of serotype O3:K6) revealed that the strain has two sets of gene clusters that encode...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ono T,Park KS,Ueta M,Iida T,Honda T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cell-deficient W/Wv mice and their mast cell-sufficient littermates were given infections of Trichinella spiralis. W/Wv mice were slower than their littermates to expel adult T. spiralis. Repair of the mast cell deficiency of W/Wv mice by bone marrow grafting was accompanied by accelerated expulsion of T. spirali...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ha TY,Reed ND,Crowle PK

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies demonstrated that Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) can directly interact with human NK cells and induce the proliferation, gamma interferon production, and cytotoxic activity of such cells without the need for accessory cells. Thus, the aim of the present study was to identify th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Esin S,Batoni G,Counoupas C,Stringaro A,Brancatisano FL,Colone M,Maisetta G,Florio W,Arancia G,Campa M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of cytosolic (intracellular) Ca(2+) concentration (Ca(i)) may be an important host response when airway epithelial cells are exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We measured Ca(i) in Calu-3 cells exposed from the apical or basolateral surface to cytotoxic and noncytotoxic strains of P. aeruginosa. Apical addi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacob T,Lee RJ,Engel JN,Machen TE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host control of Coxiella burnetii infections is believed to be mediated primarily by activated monocytes/macrophages. The activation of macrophages by cytokines leads to the production of reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) and reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI) that have potent antimicrobial activities. The contri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brennan RE,Russell K,Zhang G,Samuel JE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A parasitic protozoan, Leishmania mexicana amazonensis, was previously made resistant to tunicamycin (J.A. Kink and K.-P. Chang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:1253-1257, 1987). In the present study, six different tunicamycin-resistant variants were biologically and biochemically compared with their parental wild type ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kink JA,Chang KP

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is a recently isolated minute gram-negative obligatory intracellular bacterium of monocytes/macrophages and is the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. It is not known how macrophages respond when they encounter ehrlichiae in terms of cytokine production. In this study, we examined cy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee EH,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have demonstrated that heat-stable (A-type) capsule on piliated enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli enhances colonization of enterotoxigenic E. coli in the small intestine and enhances virulence of enterotoxigenic E. coli. In this report, four encapsulated enterotoxigenic E. coli strains and one encapsul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Runnels PL,Moon HW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural antibodies are those immunoglobulin molecules found in mammalian serum that arise in the absence of exposure to environmental pathogens and may comprise an early host defense against invading pathogens. The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi first encounters natural antibodies when its arthropod vector, Ixodes sc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Belperron AA,Bockenstedt LK

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil serine proteases cathepsin G (CG), neutrophil elastase (NE), and proteinase 3 (PR3) have recently been shown to contribute to killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae in vitro. However, their relevance in lung-protective immunity against different serotypes of S. pneumoniae in vivo has not been determined so far...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hahn I,Klaus A,Janze AK,Steinwede K,Ding N,Bohling J,Brumshagen C,Serrano H,Gauthier F,Paton JC,Welte T,Maus UA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella species can cause brucellosis, a zoonotic disease that causes serious livestock economic losses and represents a public health threat. The mechanism of virulence of Brucella spp. is not yet fully understood. Therefore, it is crucial to identify new molecules that serve as virulence factors to better understan...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Souza Filho JA,de Paulo Martins V,Campos PC,Alves-Silva J,Santos NV,de Oliveira FS,Menezes GB,Azevedo V,Cravero SL,Oliveira SC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CC chemokine receptor 4 (CCR4) and its two ligands, CCL17 and CCL22, are critically involved in different immune processes. In models of lipopolysaccharide-induced shock, CCR4-deficient (CCR4(-/-)) mice showed improved survival rates associated with attenuated proinflammatory cytokine release. Using CCR4(-/-) mice wit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Traeger T,Kessler W,Assfalg V,Cziupka K,Koerner P,Dassow C,Breitbach K,Mikulcak M,Steinmetz I,Pfeffer K,Heidecke CD,Maier S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaesserella (Haemophilus) parasuis is a commensal bacterium of the upper respiratory tract in pigs and also the causative agent of Glässer's disease, which causes significant morbidity and mortality in pigs worldwide. Isolates are characterized into 15 serovars by their capsular polysaccharide, which has shown a corr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eberle KC,Hau SJ,Luan SL,Weinert LA,Stasko JA,Wang J,Peters SE,Langford PR,Rycroft AN,Wren BW,Maskell DJ,Tucker AW,Brockmeier SL

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00